Jihad Watch Recently reading through Professor Carl Brockelmann's History of the Islamic Peoples (1948), I was struck by a particular passage that, inasmuch as it is objective and thoroughly grounded in Islamic law and Muslim practice, if asserted now by any scholar of whatever caliber would surely only earn the label "Islamophobe." Brockelmann, of course, was one of the most … [Read more...]
Are Slave-Girls in Islam Equivalent to Animals?
Many are now aware that the Koran—that is, Allah's word—permits, not just polygamy, but forced concubinage (sex with captive women), according to Koran 4:3: "Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice, then only one, or what your right hands possess [captive women taken in war]." There is, however, an interesting, … [Read more...]
On Vikings and Victims: White-Guilt in Context
American Thinker All-permeating "white-guilt" did not appear out of thin air. It has taken a sustained propaganda effort, a wide-ranging mobilization of education and culture, to inculcate and sustain self-loathing among American Caucasians. Like the Coca-Cola TM brand, white-guilt needs endless repetition to remain struck in the thought and behavioral processes of the … [Read more...]
An Analysis of Al-Qa’ida’s Worldview
Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation? By analyzing what al-Qa'ida preaches to Muslims regarding Islam's relationship to the non-Muslim world at large, and what it states to the West are its reasons for battling it, this essay seeks to highlight the many disparities behind al-Qa'ida's words. Juxtaposed in themes, the following excerpts are all derived from Usama bin … [Read more...]
Beyond Hearts and Minds
How the Operational Commander must understand Islamic war-fighting doctrine to secure victory in the long war by James M. Vartanian, Lieutenant Colonel, USA Naval War College [Excerpts] Mr. Raymond Ibrahim, a noted historian and writer of the Middle East and Islam, suggests that a thorough study and understanding of Islamic war doctrine is necessary to combat Islamic … [Read more...]